From Lingering to Liberation: Finding the Way Out of Codependency
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5 min readMar 21, 2024
You’re sitting across from someone you care deeply about, and there it is a suffocating feeling that you can’t quite shake off. You want to stand up for yourself, to set boundaries — but you can’t. Instead, you linger a bit too long.
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, lingering is to be slow in parting or in quitting something.